Children at Play: High Spirits for the Tango Festival (Kodomo asobi Tango no kishô)
「子供遊端午の気生」
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1)
Artist Unknown, Japanese
Catalogue Raisonné
Nagura, Etoki bakumatsu fûshi-ga to tennô (2007), #8; Kumon Kodomo Kenkyûjo, Ukiyo-e no kodomotachi/Children Depicted in Ukiyoe (1995), #170; Konishi, Nishiki-e bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 4 (1977), pp. 34-5 (complete diptych)
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 36 x 49.6 cm (14 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
11.42054a-b
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
MFA impressions: 11.34998.5a-b, 11.35965 (left sheet only), 11.42054a-b
Signed
Unsigned
無款
Markings
No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
版元:なし
Provenance
By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection